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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Hartigan, Grace Creator Nationality: North American; American Creator Role: painter Creator Dates/Places: b. 1922 Gender: F Creator Name-CRT: Grace Hartigan Title: Billboard View: front Creation Start Date: 1957 Creation End Date: 1957 Creation Date: 1957 Object Type: Paintings Classification Term: acrylic on canvas Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.78-1/2 x W.87 in. Inscriptions: SIGNATURE AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA ID Number: 57.35 Credit Line: The Julia B. Bigelow Fund by John Bigelow Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html Context: As a second generation Abstract Expressionist, Hartigan alternates between abstraction and figuration. The abstraction gives her work a powerful emotional and visual experience while the naturalistic subject matter serves as her inspiration. Hartigan describes her subjects as real, but not realistic. Hartigan repeatedly drew from American advertising in her work because of its common imagery, two-dimensional structure, and bold stylistic simplifications. She began Billboard by arranging images from Life magazine into a collage, which she then used as her model. Here, we glimpse a smiling face above a tube of Ipana toothpaste, the neck of a wine bottle poised over a glass, a mold of lime Jell-O surrounded by fruit, and the keys of a piano. Of this melange of commercial and mechanical imagery she remarked, "I have found my subject, it concerns that which is vulgar and vital in American life, and possibilities of its transcendence into the beautiful." Related Multimedia Description: Antenna Audio: Permanent Collection Tour Link to Multimedia: MIA_.AA200103.21.mp3 AMICA ID: MIA_.57.35 Component Measured: overall Measurement Unit: in AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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